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GENERAL STUDIES IV

ECONOMY AND PLANNING, ECONOMICS OF DEVELOPMENT AND AGRICULTURE,

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT

Standard: Degree. Total Marks: 150

Nature of Paper: Objective Type. Duration: 2 Hours

Note:

1) The Nature and standard of questions in the paper will be such that a well

educated person will be

able to answer without any specialised study and its intention is to test

candidates general

awareness of a variety of subjects.

2) It is expected from candidates to study the latest and recent

developments and happenings

pertaining to the topics/sub topics mentioned below.

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1. ECONOMY AND PLANNING

1.1 Indian Economy Challenges in Indian Economy Poverty, Unemployment

and Regional

Imbalances. Planning: Process Types Review of India's First to Tenth Five yearPlans. Evaluation.

Social and Economic Indicators of Development. State and Local Level Planning.

Decentralisation

73rd and 74th Constitutional Amendments.

1.2 Urban and Rural Infrastructure Development: Need and Significance. Growth

and Development of

Social and economic infrastructure such as Energy, Water supply and sanitation,

Housing, Transport(Road, Ports etc.), Communications (Post and Telegraphs, Telecommunication),

Network of Radio,

TV, Internet. Crises, problems related to Infrastructure in India. Policy

alternatives PublicPrivate


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Sector Partnership (PPP). FDI and Infrastructure Development Privatisation

of infrastructure

development. Centre and State Government Policies for Infrastructure

Development. Transport

and Housing (Urban and Rural). Problems Centre and State Government

initiatives and

programmes. BOLT and BOT schemes.

1.3 Industry: Need importance and role of industries in economic and social

development, Growth

Pattern, Structure of Largescale Industries in India with special reference to

Maharashtra. Small

scale, Cottage and Village industries, their problems and prospects. Impact

of liberalisation,

privatisation and globalisation on SSIs. Maharashtras Policy, measures and

programmes for

development, promotion and monitoring of SSIs. Export Potential of Small

scale and cottage

industries. SEZs, SPVs.

1.4 Cooperation: Concept, Meaning, Objectives, Old and new principles of

cooperation. Growth anddiversification of cooperative movement in India. Cooperative institution in

Maharashtra types,

role, importance and diversification. State policy and Cooperative sector

Legislation, Supervision,

Audit and Aid. Problems of Cooperatives in Maharashtra. Prospects of

Cooperatives in the era of

global competition. Review, reforms and prospects of cooperative movement in

MaharashtraAlternative policy initiatives in agricultural marketing Employment Guarantee

Scheme.

1.5 Economic reforms: Background, Liberalisation, Privatisation and Globalisation

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scope and limitations). Economic Reforms at Centre and State Level. WTO

Regime Provisions and

its implications and impact on Indian Economy, issues and problems.

1.6 International Trade and International Capital Movements: Emerging Trends in

era of globalisation.

Growth, Composition and Direction of India's Foreign Trade. Foreign trade policy

of India Export

Promotion. WTO and International Trade. Foreign Capital Inflows Composition

and Growth FDI.

eCommerce. Role of Multinationals International Financing Agencies (IMF,

World Bank and

IDA). International Credit Ratings.

1.7 Measurement and estimate of poverty Poverty line: concept and facts, BPL,

poverty eradication

measures fertility, nuptiality, mortality and morbidity in India gender

empowerment policies.

1.8 Factors determining employment measures of unemployment relation

between income,

poverty and employment issues of distributional and social justice.

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sectors drought

management in Maharashtra FDI in Maharashtra.

2. ECONOMICS OF DEVELOPMENT AND AGRICULTURE

2.1 Macro Economics: Methods of national income accounting. Functions of

money base money

highpower money quantity theory of money money multiplier. Monetary and

nonmonetarytheories of inflation control of inflation: monetary, fiscal and direct measures.

2.2 Public Finance and Financial Institutions: Role of public finance in market

economy Criteria for

public investment. Merit goods and public goods sources of revenue and

expenditure (Centre and


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and services sectors contract farming precision farming corporate

farming organic

farming.

(2) Size of land holding and productivity Green Revolution and technological

change agricultural

prices and terms of trade farm subsidiesPublic Distribution System food

security.

(3) Regional disparities in agricultural growth in Indiaagribusiness and

global marketing

agricultural credit in India.

(4) Sources of irrigation and water management livestock resource and their

productivity White

Revolution, fisheries, poultry, forestry, horticulture and floriculture development

in India and

Maharashtra.

(5) Strategies of rural development during the plan periodrural

infrastructure (social and

economic)

(6) W.T.O. and agriculture Farmers and Breeders Rights biodiversity GM

technology. Implications of GATT (WTO) agreement in agricultural marketing.(7) Marketing and pricing of agricultural inputs and outputs, price fluctuations

and their cost, role

of cooperatives in agricultural economy.

2.5 Agriculture:

(1) Importance of Agriculture in National Economy Causes of low productivity

Government

policies, schemes and programmes for agriculture production and developments

such as landreforms and land utilisation, soil and water conservation, rainfed farming,

Irrigation and its

methods, Mechanization of Agriculture. Role of ICAR, MCAER.

(2) Problem of rural indebtedness, Agriculture credit need, importance and

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involved therein. NABARD and BhuVikas Bank. Agriculture pricing

components, factors

affecting prices of various Agriculture produces Govt. support prices of various

agriculture

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produces, Subsidies. Agriculture Marketing present status, Value added

products. Role of Govt

and its institutes in agriculture marketing. (APC, APMC, etc.)

2.6 Food and Nutrition:

Trends in Food production and consumption in India, First and ensuing second

Green Revolutions,

Selfsufficiency in food, Problem of food security, Problems and issues of storage,

procurement,

distribution, import and export of food. Calorific value of foods and its

measurement, Energy and

nutrient needs of human body for better health and balanced diet common

nutritional problems

in India and its causes and effects, Govt. Policies, schemes, programs such as PDS,

Food for work,

Midday Meal Scheme and other nutritional programs. Proposed Food SecurityAct.

2.7 Indian Industry, Infrastructure and Services Sector:

(1) Trends, composition and growth of industries, infrastructure and services

sector in India role

of public, private and cooperative sectors in India small and cottage industries.

BPO.

(2) Liberalisation and its effects on Indian industries industrial sickness.

3. SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENTS3.1 Energy: Conventional and nonconventional energy sources Potential of

Solar, Wind, Biogas,

Biomass, Geothermal and other renewable energy sources. Introduction to solar

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cooker, water heater etc. Biogas principle, and process. Problems of Energy

Crises, Govt. Policies

and programs for power generation. Nuclear Power Program, Thermal

Power Program,

Hydroelectric Power program, Power distribution and National Grid. Agencies

and Institutions

engaged in Energy security, Research and development.

3.2 Computer and Information Technology: Role of computer in modern society,

its applications in

various spheres of life such as data communication, networking and web

technologies, Cyber crime

and its prevention. Use of I.T. in various services, Govt. programs such as Media

Lab Asia, Vidya

Vahini, Gyan Vahini, Community Information Centre etc. Major issues in IT

industry its prospects.

3.3 Space Technology: Indian space programmes, Indian Artificial satellites for

telecommunication,

television, education, broadcasting, weather forecasting, GPS, disaster

warning. Indian missile

program etc., Remote sensing, GIS and its application in weather forecasting,Disaster warning,

water, soil, mineral resources development, agriculture and fisheries

development, urban planning,

ecological studies, GS and GIS.

3.4 Biotechnology: Its potential to improve human life and national economy

through agricultural,

industrial development and employment generation. Biotechnology as an

essential and importanttool of natural resource development. Areas of application Agriculture, Animal

breeding and

Veterinary healthcare, Pharmaceutics, Human healthcare, Food technology,

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environment protection etc. Role and efforts of government in promoting,

regulating and

developing biotechnology in country. Ethical, Social, Legal issues related to

biotechnological

development, possible adverse effects of biotechnological development. Seed

technology, its

importance. Quality of seed. Different kinds of seeds and their seed production

and processing

techniques. BT cotton, BT brinjal, etc.

3.5 Nuclear Policy of India: Salient features. Nuclear Power as source of energy

and its significance as

clean energy. Problems of nuclear waste. Nuclear thermal power generation

in India, its

contribution to total power generation. Determinants of Nuclear Tests:

Pokhran I (1974) and

Pokhran II (1998). Recent Trends in Nuclear Policy such as NPT (Nuclear

NonProliferation Treaty)

and CTBT (Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty). INDOUS Nuclear Treaty of 2009.

3.6 Disaster Management: Definition, nature, types and classification of disasters,

Natural Hazards:Causative factors and mitigation measures. Floods, earthquakes, tsunamis,

landslides, etc., Factors

affecting mitigation measures Case studies of major earthquakes and tsunamis

such as Killari

(1993), Bhuj (2001), SikkimNepal (2011) earthquakes, Banda Ache (2004)

(Sumatra), Fukushima

(2011) (Japan) earthquakes and Tsunami. Maharashtra: Mumbai floods of 2005.

December 1993,June 2006, November 2009, July 2011 bomb blasts and terrorist attacks, their

impact.

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